How many matches has Federer lost when he's had Match Point

He's my Fav player on par with Nadal, but as great as he's been over the last decade i think he's had more tough losses then any other player in tennis history, Wimby 2008, 3 french open Finals in a row, US Open 2009, 2 consecutive US Open semi finals while having 2 match points in each, the list goes on.

Off the top of my head i can think of 4 matches he's lost while having match point and they were all pretty big matches

Australian Open 2005 Semi-final against Safin had match point in the 4th only to lose 7-9 in the fifth after 4 hours and 40 minutes, If he won he would have faced Hewitt in the final, Fed demolished hewitt at the 2004 US Open 6-0 7-6 6-0 , this was the last slam before this Australian Open and I'd bet my House Fed would have taken the trophy had he got to the final.

US Open 2010-2011 Semi-Finals vs Djokovic both times, he had Matchpoints in both matches and lost in both of them! He may have a mental block against Nadal but i believe he would have won at least one of the finals had he got through, winning 5 in a row i don't think i'd be wrong on that.

Rome 2006 Final vs Nadal, 5 hour long match lost when having 2-3 match points and playing out of his mind.

Aside from matches he's lost whilst having matchpoints, i can think of like a million that he's lost where you'd think he was about to win, for example when his in a situation like 6-4 5-3 30-0 then loses.

So far we've listed 4 matches his lost at the Slams where his had matchpoints, i can't think of any Nadal/Djokovic have lost whilst having matchpoints (At slams)

federer is not my favorite but in a way it shows you how good he is in that even when he loses he has match points. a lesser player would just lose in straight sets

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Definitely agree with you there, and the fact that there's only been one match where he's won whilst saving matchpoints is also a testimony to how he's able to finish/win matches without letting his opponent catch up or level with him

yea lol so many times he lost with multiple match points or when he had a huge lead like Delpo match at the us open final. Thats match he never should of lost.

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He never had MP's in that match. He was 2 points away at 6-5 30-30 with Delpo serving in the 4th set.

He lost 5 matches in 1 year in 2010 when he had MP's. Those matches were to Baghdatis in IW, Berdych in Miami, Hewitt in Halle(??, not sure about this one, may have been Gulbis in Rome), Djokovic at the USO, and Monfils in Paris Of course, he also lost to Safin at the 05 AO and Djokovic at the 2011 US Open. Those are the ones I know off the top of my head.

I don't know of many matches where he's saved MP's and won. The only ones I can think of are the 2003 TMC RR match against Agassi and the one against Olivier Rochus in Halle in 2006. Federer is very good at not letting it get to the point where he has to save a MP or more in order to win. Unfortunately, sometimes he's not the best at closing the deal, as evidenced above. But I could also name you just as many matches where he "should've" lost and ended up winning. But people like to focus on the negative because he's expected to win anyway. And he makes it look easy most of the time so people forget how hard it really is to do what he does consistently.

Excuse this if you don't want to see a boring list full of possibilities, but I'm just looking through his career matches now on the ATP website, and I've found a match against Albert Costa in Miami in 2003 that he lost that went to 9-7 in a 3rd set breaker. I would image he lost MP(s) in that one. He also has had really tight matches against Gaudio, Roddick, and Scott Draper in the summer of 2003, and another match against Lopez in Madrid in 2003 that might go into one of these lists. A close loss to Ljubicic in Basel 2003. A match against Davy in Miami 2004. Karlovic in Gstaad 2004, Hrbaty in Cincy 2004, Berdych at the Olympics,

I'm trying to remember if he had MP(s) against Tsonga in Canada in 2009. I think he did since he blew the match after being up 5-1 in the final set, but I'm not sure.

I thought Fed had match point in the loss to Gulbis at Rome in 2010. That year was disaster in terms of major tournaments lost after having match point after a spectacular start to the year.

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Fed did not have match point. Gulbis had to win on his seventh match point. Gulbis said "“Well, actually I was s#*&!*!% my pants - sorry for the language, but that's the only way I can describe how I felt at 5-4 and at match point," Gulbis said of his nerves. "I couldn't get the serve in, I didn't know what to do, I was shaking. A terrible feeling." about winning on the 7th match point.